CommunityThis subject of people origin is very delicate. for me, I hate to differentiate between people because of their origin.Generally, people who call themselves to belong to Ouled Djellal are the people who came first to settle in the region. They have houses and they cultivate date palm trees. They don't think that they belong to a tribe. I mean they don't favour blood affiliation. On the contrary, other people who came from the desert are most of the time tribal people. It means that even if they lived in ouled djellal for more than 100 years, they still think that they belong to their tribe. And thus, they maintain thier relation to their specific until now.These people generally have sheep in the desert.This idea of tribe is still valid. The proof of that is that there is always a conflict of political power in the town.
The tribes are Ouled Harkat, Ouled Sassi, Ouled Rahma, El mekhalifs. And I think that all belong to a general tribe called Ouled Zekri.The people are flooding each year to the town. Since they have money , they buy houses and invest their money in agriculture.
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